I think about the price. The price of appetite. The cost of forgetting who we are. Pretending we are... who we will never be...
Sicario (2015)
ALEJANDRO
A screenplay character in Sicario (2015).
- lines
- 134
- words
- 1,667
- scenes
- 25
- dialogue
- 24%
- avg words / line
- 12
- shortest / longest
- 1 / 98
Sample dialogue
You look like a girl when you’re scared. Such beauty in you when you let yourself be frail. Like the daughter they took from me ... This is not the work for you. Look at yourself, Kate. What it has done to you in just three days ... Find a little town far from the border. A place where the rule of law still exists. You will spot predators there very easy now... Make a difference you can see everyday. Because you will not survive here. You are not a wolf. This is the land of wolves now.
scene 84 — EXT. MACY’S APARTMENT -- BALCONY -- DAY.And you too...
scene 16 — EXT. BEACH -- SOUTH OF CARTAGENA -- DAY.On the left.
scene 28 — EXT. BORDER HIGHWAY -- CONTINUOUS.You remind me of my wife. I find it very difficult to look at you.
scene 52 — INT. MACY’S VEHICLE -- CONT.Your children speak English?
scene 82 — INT FAUSTO’S KITCHEN/ DINING ROOM
Bookends
There is a moment in each person’s life. A choice. Do what feels good... Do what is good. Make the wrong choice enough, and it is not presented again... then all choices are bad. And the consequences worse. There is no war on drugs. Only war. The enemy we fight? Ourselves ...